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PUBLIC LAW 85-857-SEPT. 2, 1958

(1) The course combines organized group instruction in agricultural and related subjects of at least two hundred hours per year (and of at least eight hours each month) at an educational institution, with supervised work experience on a farm or other agricultural establishment. (2) The eligible veteran will perform a part of such course on a farm or other agricultural establishment under his control. (3) The course is developed with due consideration to the size and character of the farm or other agricultural establishment on which the eligible veteran will receive his supervised work experience and to the need of such eligible veteran, in the type of farming for which he is training, for proficiency in planning, producing, marketing, farm mechanics, conservation of resources, food conservation, farm financing, farming management, and the keeping of farm and home accounts. (4) The eligible veteran will receive not less than one hundred hours of individual instruction per year, not less than fifty hours of which shall be on such farm or other agricultural establishment (with at least two visits by the instructor to such farm each month). Such individual instruction shall be given by the instructor responsible for the veteran's institutional instruction and shall include instruction and home-study assignments in the preparation of budgets, inventories, and statements showing the )roduction, use on the farm, and sale of crops, livestock, and ivestock products. (5) The eligible veteran will be assured of control of such farm or other agricultural establishment (whether by ownership, lease, management agreement, or other tenure arrangement) until the completion of his course. (6) Such farm or other agricultural establishment shall be of a size and character which (A) will, together with the groupinstruction part of the course, occupy the full time of the eligible veteran, (B) will permit instruction in all aspects of the management of the farm or other agricultural establishment of the type for which the eligible veteran is being trained, and will provide the eligible veteran an opportunity to apply to the operation of his farm or other agricultural establishment the major portion of the farm practices taught in the group instruction part of the course, and (C) will assure him a satisfactory income for a reasonable living under normal conditions at least by the end of his course. (7) Provision shall be made for certification by the institution and the veteran that the training offered does not repeat or duplicate training previously received by the veteran. (8) The institutional on-farm training meets such other fair and reasonable standards as may be established by the State approving agency. § 1653. Approval of accredited courses (a) A State approving agency may approve the courses offered by an educational institution when— (1) such courses have been accredited and approved by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association; (2) credit for such course is approved by the State department of education for credit toward a high school diploma; (3) such courses are conducted under sections 11-28 of title 20; or (4) such courses are accepted by the State department of education for credit for a teacher's certificate or a teacher's degree. For the purposes of this chapter the Commissioner shall publish a

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